PEOPLE living next to the site of a new industrial estate say their lives will be “horrendous” now it has been approved.

Last week it was revealed that developer Tungsten’s plans to build on the last stretch of greenfield land between Hinckley and the A5 had been thrown out.

But because previous plans for a slightly smaller estate had been passed, building will continue.

Intensive construction work has now started on Tungsten Park, and furious Coventry Road residents say they feel that nobody cares what happens to them.

Jane Glover, who lives next door to the development, said: “It’s bad for all the residents. No-one considers us at all. They’re more bothered about the canal. What about the residents? What protection are we going to get? The units are going to be so near they’re going to be able to see in our bedrooms.”

Graham Bailey, who lives three doors away from Tungsten Park, has been campaigning against the development for nearly a decade.

He said: “It seems to me that the planners have never done a proper assessment of what impact this will have on the residents.

“The planning department just look at drawings on a screen. When it’s up there it looks beautiful, but it doesn’t look that way down here.

Residents say that since a large housing estate was built opposite Tungsten Park traffic on the already busy Coventry Road has become unbearable.

They believe this will only get worse once the industrial estate is completed.

Mr Bailey added: “Tungsten have said there is going to be 400 people employed on this site, and that’s not going to include service vehicles.

“It’s going to be horrendous. Coventry Road is an extremely busy road.

“We have just had enough. This has devalued our property, and who would want to buy them now.”

The new estate is just a few hundred metres away from the Harrowbrook industrial estate – where one-third of industrial units stand derelict or empty.